OUR JORGE QUIROGA IS IN BOSTON WITH NEW DETAILS TONIGHT. JORGE? ED, WE'RE ON EX TER STREET AROUND THE CORNER ARE, TONIGHT, WITH ITS A SOMBER MAYOR WALL WHO CALLS THE FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS HEROS AM THE TWO MEN WERE AMONG THE FIRST ON THE SCENE HERE ON BEMON STREET THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRANTIC MAYDAY CALL FOR HELP HEARD JUST MINUTES AFTER THEY RUSHED THIS THE BURNING APARTMENT BUILDING. TODAY IS A SAD DAY FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON. WE LOST TWOS HEROS HERE TODAY. IT MAKES ME PROUD TO BE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. THESE TWO HEROS RAN INA BURNING BUILDING, GOT PEOPLE OUT OF THE BUILDING. IT DIN TAKE LONG FOR TROUBLE TO FIND THEM. THE FIRE ORIGINATED IN THE BASEMENT. THEY WENT WIN THE LINE AND THEY MADE THEIR WAY UP THE FRONT STAIR AND DOWN THE INTERIOR CELLAR STAIRS. THEY WERE NOT IN THE BUILDING MORE THAN TWO OR THREE MINUTES WHEN THEY WERE TRAPPED. OTHERS PREVENTED REACHING FROM THE TWO MEN TRAPPED. THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION. WE CALL IT A BACKDRAFT. WE HAVE AN EXPLOSION. THE WIND FUELING THE BLAZE. IN THREE YEARS, I HAVE MERV SEEN A FIRE TRAVEL THAT FAST ESCALATE THAT QUICKLY AND CREATE SUCH HAVOC IN SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. FIREFIGHTER MICHAEL KENNEDY PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE HOSPITAL. THE BODY OF LIEUTENANT EDWARD WALSH RECOVERED IN THE BASEMENT SHORTLY BEFORE 8:00. THE FIREFIGHTERS HE WORKS WITH AND THE ENGINE 33 AND LADDER 15 ARE ACTUALLY THE ONES THAT RECOVERED LIEUTENANT WALSH, THEY PUT HIM ON THE STRETCHER, AND THEY CARRIED HIM OUT. UNION PRESIDENT RICH PARIS KNEW THEM BOTH. TWO GREAT FIREFIGHTERS. AS DEPUTY SAID, ALL OF THOSE FIREFIGHTERS THAT WORKED THERE TODAY, PEOPLE WERE SAVED FROM THE ACTIONST THEY DN THE FIRE TODAY. CITIZENS WERE SAVED. THAT IS WHAT WE DO. WE SACRIFICE OUR LIFE HER TO CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. TONIGHT, TWO DEAD, 13 OTHER FIREFIGHTERS INJURED WITH BURNS AND BROKEN BONES. A VERY SAD DAY FOR THE CITY, DEVASTATING AND TRAGIC FOR THE DEPARTMENT. OFFICIALS HER ON THE SCEN AT THIS IMPORTANT SAY THEY DO NOT BELIEVE THE FIRE WAS SUSPICIOUS.